we should have a marketplace forum Options

[synatribe]

a marketplace forum!
what does everyone think?

This post has been edited by mipadi: Apr 6 2009, 09:09 AM

Reason for edit: Fixed title

[synatribe]

Well, the idea is sound. However, without jusun's approval, you can't really use the site for selling stuff.

I believe this has been suggested before as well.

oo yea, there is micron

[manny-the-dino]

Yeah I remember Jusun saying he wanted to do it or was going to but he's not here. "/

[*KINGdinguhling*]

bad idea, half the items are gonna be illegal

[heyo-captain-jac...]

What could we sell other than crappy t shirts?

[heyo-captain-jac...]

That's too obvious. Be original.

[Simba]

wow it always comes down to Jusun and him never being here and us not being able to do crap because of that


he needs to relinquish ownership of cB

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Immediately thought of sex.

[brooklyneast05]

yeah i think this was jusun's plan before he decided to run off again


what a surprising turn of events

[Maccabee]

I dont think cb wants to get into that?! If someone wants to buy services they can pm someone!

[synatribe]

And if someone wants a service for layouts or graphics, that's what the request forum is for.
And if we end up getting a marketplace forum added, the staff is going to have to work harder to make sure nobody posts something thats probably illegal. I mean, they already have enough problems with people doing that already.

more than just layout, like wordpress, joomla, phpBB3 themes etc.. The wordpress submission has major problems that Jusun should fix. No one ever goes and does anything on the request forums anyways cause no ones getting paid, I have wordpress themes i could sell. It seems like a lot of forums have theses and maybe we could open up new staff positions for marketplace forum, seeming that many people want to be on staff anyways like KINGdinguhling

[synatribe]

Also, JC mentioned Jusun had an idea of making this happen with cb 4.5, but then soon vanished. It would be a part of createblog, not the forums. That way, it gets more exposure to visitors.

kind of like themeforest.net?

[fameONE]

This is Jusun's block. No matter what individual profits off from the marketplace, he's going to take a percentage off the top.

Well, that's what I'd expect someone in his shoes to do.

[manny-the-dino]

The reason Jusun wanted to have a marketplace is so that "'online celebs' might be interested in the new marketplace to request a custom (unique) layout for them, and in turn tell other people about us ... this will help spread the word about cb again, which will help boost our pagerank (on google) since these newly introduced people will most likly pass the link along to their spheres of influence (afterall, we ARE the BEST myspace layout design site), which will in turn will bring in even more new people."

Straight from Jusun himself. So basically it'd be more geared toward design related things.

[fameONE]

The reason Jusun wanted to have a marketplace is so that "'online celebs' might be interested in the new marketplace to request a custom (unique) layout for them, and in turn tell other people about us ... this will help spread the word about cb again, which will help boost our pagerank (on google) since these newly introduced people will most likly pass the link along to their spheres of influence (afterall, we ARE the BEST myspace layout design site), which will in turn will bring in even more new people."

Straight from Jusun himself. So basically it's be more geared toward design related things.

That makes sense. Dude will make bank with that.

[Simba]

This is Jusun's block. No matter what individual profits off from the marketplace, he's going to take a percentage off the top.

Well, that's what I'd expect someone in his shoes to do.

awwww heeeel naw, pak dat

but manny's post makes sense

[*KINGdinguhling*]

if this shit goes through, im slangin

[fameONE]

if this shit goes through, im slangin

BACK LIKE COOKED CRACK: CB09 EDITION

[karmakiller]

Well if he starts this up, he'll have to stay around the maintain it. And he hasn't really shown anyone that he can do that. Like everything, there are probably going to be a few glitches in how it works, and he will be the only one who can fix it. I don't want it to be a case where people get pissed at mods and end up disliking cb because Jusun is the only one who can fix/change things.

[fameONE]

Well if he starts this up, he'll have to stay around the maintain it. And he hasn't really shown anyone that he can do that. Like everything, there are probably going to be a few glitches in how it works, and he will be the only one who can fix it. I don't want it to be a case where people get pissed at mods and end up disliking cb because Jusun is the only one who can fix/change things.

Real talk. I know you're not trying to bash dude, but you really put him out there by simply being truthful. I wonder what keeps him so busy?

[brooklyneast05]

@ brandon he has been with his mother a lot. Family before business really..

did he ever mail you back

[fameONE]

@ brandon he has been with his mother a lot. Family before business really..

My bad.

[karmakiller]

I completely understand that it's a lot of work to run a place like cb and still be able to keep up with your personal life, but I also think he would be able to make it a little easier on himself if he gave admins more power (which we lost after the Suz issue). Admins could look over the forum and profiles part of cb and he could take care of the marketplace and submissions side of it. He'd cut out a lot of work. If I were him I wouldn't be able to enjoy this place, because every time he comes here there is a list of technical stuff he has to do.

[brooklyneast05]

for real. i don't have sympathy for him because he makes it hard on himself. all he has to do is give our admins enough power to actually run this place right and everyone would stop bitching at him for constantly running off. it would be great if our staff could really do the things they want to do.

no offense to whatever his problems are but i have had family problems and it never made it where i couldn't take 5 minutes at some point in a few months to respond to someone's messages/emails/calls especially when those are people who are running something that makes me money. i'm just saying.

idk i just think he makes it a more frustrating situation that it needs to be for the reason dee said. it would be better off to hand over some power to someone imo

[mipadi]

I think jusun has trust issues this site probably pays all his bills. I don't think he wants someone to be able to take that away from him.

Can you really blame him, given the history of some of the shit people have pulled around here?

If Jusun is really serious about making this a "big" site and implementing all he wants to -- and if he's serious about making money off of it -- he really should just turn it into a business, and hire some help. Yeah, truth be told, I wouldn't necessarily just trust some kid off the street, either -- but if he "real" employees and a paid staff, he could be more discerning in who he picked.

Hell, I'd work for Jusun, even if it was only part-time.